Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology at the LSE and Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT. At LSE, he teaches in the Cities Programme and trains doctoral students in the sociology of culture. His three most recent books are studies of modern capitalism: The Culture of the New Capitalism, (Yale, 2006), Respect in an Age of Inequality, (Penguin, 2003) and The Corrosion of Character, (Norton 1998). Professor Sennett has been awarded the Amalfi and the Ebert prizes for sociology.

 

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the Academia Europea. He is past president of the American Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

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